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Build-n-Share Challenge #195 - Wishes of the Dead
Challenge Deadline: Tuesday, October 31st, 2017, Midnight EST
Erisa Bonekeeper stood, silent, on the uneven ground with its patchy, weedy, grass. She didn't like what she saw.
The Old mausoleums roof had collapsed in on itself, taking part if the walls and crypts with it. The walls surrounding the cemetery were even worse, with huge gaping holes where stones had been stolen or tumbled down to be covered by weeds. The tombstones were obscured by weeds and many had fallen or been kicked over.
There was nothing left of the groundskeeper's cottage. Indeed, the only signs that humans had been there at all any time recently was the graffiti decorating some of the standing walls and the remains of some sort of ritual in the shallow cracked remains of what might have once been a pond or fountain.
More important than what she saw, however, was what she heard. "Can you hear them?"
The sudden address from the still figure you had been picking your way towards made you jump. "I'm sorry?" You ask, stopping in your tracks. The figure turned and you nearly jump aboard the nope train to destination anywhere but there.
It was not that the speaker was horrible or terrifying to look at. She was tall and slender, and, in her black coat and pants, looked almost ecclesiastical. Her hair, long and straight, is such a pale blonde as to be almost white. Her face isn't skeletal, despite her stark features and somber expression. Instead her face reminds you of a statue you once saw of an aesthetic angel.
No, what made you nearly nope out is her eyes. All black, even the whites, with silver irises that almost appear to glow. Looking into them is like looking into eternity and that is a very uncomfortable feeling.
A faint smile touches her lips as you avert your eyes. "The dead." She says, "Can you hear them?"
Her voice is surprisingly soft, gentle with a soothing note that eases your uncertainties.
"No," you say hesitantly.
"I can."
"What do they say?" Your inquiry is cautious.
"Complaints mostly." The amused exasperated tone in her voice makes you smile. "They do not like their resting place. I am hoping you can help us with that." She holds out her hand, "I am Erisa Bonekeeper. I'm the new groundskeeper."
After introductions, during which you avoid looking at her eyes, you wave a hand at the dilapidated graveyard. "So how can I help?"
"Well, for starters. I need a groundskeeper's cottage. I do not require anything fancy. Merely a bedroom, bathroom. Some place to cook and work. With enough room so I don't trip over my lady and her boys."
"Family?" You ask curiously, uncertain who would want to raise children here.
To answer Erisa lets out a loud long whistle. From different areas of the graveyard, fast and silent as fog, come three huge dogs. The smallest of the three comes to sit next to the groundskeeper. The other two flank them. At a gesture the three sit, still as statues. "This is Lady," Erisa says, stroking the back of the nearest. "And her boys Cerberus and Dante. They guard the graveyard at night."
Privately you guess them to be hellhounds. Aloud you simply say "i see why you requested space. What else do you need?"
"New fence for the graveyard. New mausoleum. I will move the dead for you as needed. Landscaping, which I will leave to you. I wish for this place to feel welcoming. When the living are comfortable coming here, so to will the dead be."
"All of that is feasible."
"Good." she looks around, "There are 12 graves here now, but the city is going to re open this cemetery and has added land to its boundaries. They have also given a budget of 45000."
"I can do a lot with that." You assure her.
"Thank you." She turns away, walking over to kneel at one of the grave stones where she begins to weed the ground.
Brief:
Create the graveyard on any lot as long as it's 30x40 or over. It must include:
The styling is your choice.
Your budget is $45,000
Sim Challenge:
Create Erisa with whatever traits you thin would suit her and show her maintaining the graveyard.
Entry List
Beginners
NAME: djsdragongirl
LINK TO LOT: Not uploaded yet
Entrance to Cermetary at night
Bonekeeper Family Graves
Bonekeeper
LINK TO MEDIA: Bonekeeper
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: Bonekeeper and her dogs are included in with the photo's
LEVEL: beginner
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: Custom Lot built in Appalossa, cost is $39.568
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: The cemetary is divided into 3 parts, when you enter on the right is an area for all the pets (Pet Cemetary), to the left is some empty plots for new dead souls, as you continue towards the cottage you will see the Mosoluem on the right with "Grim Keepers Door", to the left you will see the Bonekeeper Family Graves. Near the back you will find the original 12 graves that have been placed already.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes please do. I know some of the photo's were taken in edit mode and show the grid (sorry)
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: None
Intermediates
NTERMEDIATE
NAME: cwaddell
LINK TO LOT: Bonekeeper Graveyard on mediafire
LINK TO MEDIA: Builds by cwaddell - Bonekeeper Graveyard
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: Bonekeeper household media link and download link
LEVEL: intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: Built as a 30X40 residential lot at 17 Maywood Lane in Sunset Valley (across from the Bunch house). Cost - $38,241
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: Bonekeeper Graveyard
The graveyard has a mausoleum with a caretaker's cottage behind it with 2 dog houses for 2 of the 3 guard dogs. Currently there are 12 grave plots occupied with 12 more ready for use. There is also room for more plots to be laid out along the walkway under the willows and along the fence in the back. There are deathfish in the reflecting pool. The caretaker's cottage has a great room and bathroom downstairs and a bedroom with office space upstairs.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: for info about CC used on Erisa see Bonekeeper household media link above.
NAME: Kgaff
LINK TO LOT: not uploaded yet
LINK TO MEDIA: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16092930/#Comment_16092930
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: not uploaded yet - Pictures combined with the lot pictures.
LEVEL: Intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 40 x 40, 2500 Pinochle Point, 44,863
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16092932/#Comment_16092932
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED:N/A
NAME: Zayven
LINK TO LOT:
LINK TO MEDIA: https://postimg.org/gallery/26kb11fba/
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: Included
LEVEL: Intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 40x40, Custom placed, $44,877 furnished, $23,814 unfurnished.
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16120647/#Comment_16120647
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: ShinoKCR, Mutske, Rirann, Ziggy28TSR, Marcorse, Sim_Man123, RicciNmbr, Ung999, Luna, SimCredible, Pilar, DOT, Murfeel, Pralinesims
Advanced
NAME: creativemetaphor
LINK TO LOT: not uploaded
LINK TO MEDIA: Eternal Rest Memorial Park
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: included in above
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 40x40, custom placement in Moonlight Falls, final cost $44,999
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16088623/#Comment_16088623
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED:n/a
NAME: ISHTARJMD
LINK TO MEDIA: https://imgur.com/a/qokkx
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: $44055, 509 Farmer Valley Road, 40x40
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: A lovely little graveyard with a mausoleum, oriental shrine, pet area, and small grave sections for current inhabitants. The caretakers lodge features a fenced off area for her dogs. The first floor has a solarium, open concept kitchen and living room with a powder room. Upstairs is her bedroom, office and master bath.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: TSR
Results
Beginners -:
Comments
1st Place: @djsdragongirl
Optional Challenge: @djsdragongirl
Intermediates -:
Comments
1st Place: @Kgaff
Optional Challenge: @cwaddell
Advanced :
Comments
1st Place: @creativemetaphor
Optional Challenge: @creativemetaphor
Challenge Deadline: Tuesday, October 31st, 2017, Midnight EST
Erisa Bonekeeper stood, silent, on the uneven ground with its patchy, weedy, grass. She didn't like what she saw.
The Old mausoleums roof had collapsed in on itself, taking part if the walls and crypts with it. The walls surrounding the cemetery were even worse, with huge gaping holes where stones had been stolen or tumbled down to be covered by weeds. The tombstones were obscured by weeds and many had fallen or been kicked over.
There was nothing left of the groundskeeper's cottage. Indeed, the only signs that humans had been there at all any time recently was the graffiti decorating some of the standing walls and the remains of some sort of ritual in the shallow cracked remains of what might have once been a pond or fountain.
More important than what she saw, however, was what she heard. "Can you hear them?"
The sudden address from the still figure you had been picking your way towards made you jump. "I'm sorry?" You ask, stopping in your tracks. The figure turned and you nearly jump aboard the nope train to destination anywhere but there.
It was not that the speaker was horrible or terrifying to look at. She was tall and slender, and, in her black coat and pants, looked almost ecclesiastical. Her hair, long and straight, is such a pale blonde as to be almost white. Her face isn't skeletal, despite her stark features and somber expression. Instead her face reminds you of a statue you once saw of an aesthetic angel.
No, what made you nearly nope out is her eyes. All black, even the whites, with silver irises that almost appear to glow. Looking into them is like looking into eternity and that is a very uncomfortable feeling.
A faint smile touches her lips as you avert your eyes. "The dead." She says, "Can you hear them?"
Her voice is surprisingly soft, gentle with a soothing note that eases your uncertainties.
"No," you say hesitantly.
"I can."
"What do they say?" Your inquiry is cautious.
"Complaints mostly." The amused exasperated tone in her voice makes you smile. "They do not like their resting place. I am hoping you can help us with that." She holds out her hand, "I am Erisa Bonekeeper. I'm the new groundskeeper."
After introductions, during which you avoid looking at her eyes, you wave a hand at the dilapidated graveyard. "So how can I help?"
"Well, for starters. I need a groundskeeper's cottage. I do not require anything fancy. Merely a bedroom, bathroom. Some place to cook and work. With enough room so I don't trip over my lady and her boys."
"Family?" You ask curiously, uncertain who would want to raise children here.
To answer Erisa lets out a loud long whistle. From different areas of the graveyard, fast and silent as fog, come three huge dogs. The smallest of the three comes to sit next to the groundskeeper. The other two flank them. At a gesture the three sit, still as statues. "This is Lady," Erisa says, stroking the back of the nearest. "And her boys Cerberus and Dante. They guard the graveyard at night."
Privately you guess them to be hellhounds. Aloud you simply say "i see why you requested space. What else do you need?"
"New fence for the graveyard. New mausoleum. I will move the dead for you as needed. Landscaping, which I will leave to you. I wish for this place to feel welcoming. When the living are comfortable coming here, so to will the dead be."
"All of that is feasible."
"Good." she looks around, "There are 12 graves here now, but the city is going to re open this cemetery and has added land to its boundaries. They have also given a budget of 45000."
"I can do a lot with that." You assure her.
"Thank you." She turns away, walking over to kneel at one of the grave stones where she begins to weed the ground.
Brief:
Create the graveyard on any lot as long as it's 30x40 or over. It must include:
- a Mausoleum
- a groundskeepers cottage, consisting, 1bedroom, 1 bathroom and the usual living and kitchen areas, an office space of some kind, with ample space for three large dogs
- landscaping
The styling is your choice.
Your budget is $45,000
Sim Challenge:
Create Erisa with whatever traits you thin would suit her and show her maintaining the graveyard.
Entry List
Beginners
NAME: djsdragongirl
LINK TO LOT: Not uploaded yet
Entrance to Cermetary at night
Bonekeeper Family Graves
Bonekeeper
LINK TO MEDIA: Bonekeeper
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: Bonekeeper and her dogs are included in with the photo's
LEVEL: beginner
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: Custom Lot built in Appalossa, cost is $39.568
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: The cemetary is divided into 3 parts, when you enter on the right is an area for all the pets (Pet Cemetary), to the left is some empty plots for new dead souls, as you continue towards the cottage you will see the Mosoluem on the right with "Grim Keepers Door", to the left you will see the Bonekeeper Family Graves. Near the back you will find the original 12 graves that have been placed already.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes please do. I know some of the photo's were taken in edit mode and show the grid (sorry)
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: None
Intermediates
NTERMEDIATE
NAME: cwaddell
LINK TO LOT: Bonekeeper Graveyard on mediafire
LINK TO MEDIA: Builds by cwaddell - Bonekeeper Graveyard
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: Bonekeeper household media link and download link
LEVEL: intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: Built as a 30X40 residential lot at 17 Maywood Lane in Sunset Valley (across from the Bunch house). Cost - $38,241
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: Bonekeeper Graveyard
The graveyard has a mausoleum with a caretaker's cottage behind it with 2 dog houses for 2 of the 3 guard dogs. Currently there are 12 grave plots occupied with 12 more ready for use. There is also room for more plots to be laid out along the walkway under the willows and along the fence in the back. There are deathfish in the reflecting pool. The caretaker's cottage has a great room and bathroom downstairs and a bedroom with office space upstairs.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: for info about CC used on Erisa see Bonekeeper household media link above.
NAME: Kgaff
LINK TO LOT: not uploaded yet
LINK TO MEDIA: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16092930/#Comment_16092930
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: not uploaded yet - Pictures combined with the lot pictures.
LEVEL: Intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 40 x 40, 2500 Pinochle Point, 44,863
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16092932/#Comment_16092932
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED:N/A
NAME: Zayven
LINK TO LOT:
LINK TO MEDIA: https://postimg.org/gallery/26kb11fba/
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: Included
LEVEL: Intermediate
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 40x40, Custom placed, $44,877 furnished, $23,814 unfurnished.
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16120647/#Comment_16120647
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: ShinoKCR, Mutske, Rirann, Ziggy28TSR, Marcorse, Sim_Man123, RicciNmbr, Ung999, Luna, SimCredible, Pilar, DOT, Murfeel, Pralinesims
Advanced
NAME: creativemetaphor
LINK TO LOT: not uploaded
LINK TO MEDIA: Eternal Rest Memorial Park
OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: included in above
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: 40x40, custom placement in Moonlight Falls, final cost $44,999
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16088623/#Comment_16088623
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: yes please
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED:n/a
NAME: ISHTARJMD
LINK TO MEDIA: https://imgur.com/a/qokkx
LEVEL: advanced
LOT SIZE, ADDRESS & FINAL COST: $44055, 509 Farmer Valley Road, 40x40
LOT DESCRIPTION & DETAILS: A lovely little graveyard with a mausoleum, oriental shrine, pet area, and small grave sections for current inhabitants. The caretakers lodge features a fenced off area for her dogs. The first floor has a solarium, open concept kitchen and living room with a powder room. Upstairs is her bedroom, office and master bath.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Yes
CREDIT TO SIMMERS FOR CUSTOM CONTENT USED: TSR
Results
Beginners -:
Comments
1st Place: @djsdragongirl
Optional Challenge: @djsdragongirl
Intermediates -:
Comments
1st Place: @Kgaff
Optional Challenge: @cwaddell
Advanced :
Comments
1st Place: @creativemetaphor
Optional Challenge: @creativemetaphor
